[December 3, 1920]

To the Kremlin Commandant's Office

I hereby inform you that the sentry on duty today, December 3rd, at approximately 12 noon, at the post by the Trinity Gate, failed to tear off the control stub from a one-time pass into the Kremlin.

Since this was done by him through misunderstanding, the aforementioned sentry is not subject to any disciplinary measures.

It is necessary to report to me immediately whether any measures of punishment have been applied to this sentry. Provide me with his name and surname*.

Chairman of the Council of Labour and Defence

*In response to this letter, Lenin received a report stating that at that time the duty sentries at the Trinity Gate were cadets D. Tikhonov and M. Artemov, and that no disciplinary measures had been applied to them. On the report Lenin wrote: "In preserve."

**FOOTNOTES:**

1 L. M. Khinchuk — party member since 1920. From 1921 to 1926 — chairman of the board of the Central Union [of Consumer Cooperatives]. During this time — member of the board of the Moscow Workers' Cooperative.

2 A. B. Khalatov — party member since 1917. During this time — chairman of the commission of the Council of People's Commissars for workers' supply.

3 V. P. Nogin — party member since 1898. Following the victory of the October Socialist Revolution, he entered the Soviet of People's Commissars as People's Commissar for Trade and Industry. During this time — member of the presidium of the Supreme Council of the National Economy.

4 Reference is made to the decrees of the Council of Labour and Defence and the Council of People's Commissars.

On October 1, 1920, at a session of the Council of Labour and Defence chaired by Lenin, a draft decree was adopted regarding the procedure for supplying Red Army rations by the Military Department.

On November 6, 1920, at a session of the Council of People's Commissars chaired by Lenin, a decision was adopted: to confirm the decree of the Council of Labour and Defence from October 1, 1920; to approve the draft decree on Red Army rations.

On November 12, 1920, at a session of the Council of Labour and Defence chaired by Lenin, a decision was adopted to approve a clarification on the extension of the Council of Labour and Defence decree from October 1, 1920, on Red Army rations to military personnel of the organs of the Chief Sanitary Administration, the Chief Food Supply Administration, the distribution organs of the Chief Military Supply Administration, and employees of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspection, detailed for work in military and naval department units, institutions, and establishments.

5 M. K. Vladimirov — chairman of the Special Food Commission of the Southern Front.